Open Brackets is on pretty good form today. Soft target, easy money, and a fine start to Friday morning.

And I enjoyed the photo and comments at L.A.me.

Keep mocking my PR campaign, I'll make the Internet slow too.
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Received one Valentine yesterday, by email, and I was naturally thrilled to bits. Until I realized that the woman in question had sent the identical message to 71 of her closest friends. She could at least have done them as BCCs. Then I wouldn't be feeling nearly so indispensable.

A really nice story in Smithsonian, about the return of bison to the prairies. There isn't a whole lot of new stuff there, but it is good to see it all brought together, and especially to see how the linkages among the various plant and animal species contribute to the system as a whole. This is n...

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Sex, natural history, and speech-writing; disparate activities (is natural history an activity?) linked by the absurd expectations that art creates.

How much performance anxiety is engendered by pornography? You know its only a story, and yet ...

Who would sit still and watch while a pride of li...

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I'm useless at estimating the amount of pasta to cook. I need to weigh it. But when I tipped the spaghetti onto the scales last night out came spaghetti powder and a few teeny beetles. Not very nice, and easily dealt with, but raising lots of questions.

First off; where do the beetles come from? I...

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